The decision happens in a room we are not in.
An eight-slide deck for the treasurer who has to stand up and defend this. Editable, so you can change a heading or drop a slide. None of it requires you to choose us.
Three numbers decide the room
Walk in without them and the discussion becomes opinion. They fill slides two and three.
—kW
Spare capacity on the common connection
Facility manager, or the last demand bill.
—cars + two-wheelers
EVs in the building today
Count them. The two-wheelers are the surprise.
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Where those residents charge now
An extension cord belongs on the first slide.
The six objections
They come up at every meeting, in roughly this order. None is unreasonable.
01“Why should non-EV owners pay for this?”They don't. Per-bay metering means each user pays for their own units; the common fund pays only for the backbone.Fuller answer
They should not, and a properly structured system means they do not. Per-bay metering means each user pays for their own units. What the common fund pays for is the backbone — the same way it paid for the lift that residents on the ground floor rarely use. If the committee wants to go further, the capital cost can be recovered from users over time. Say which model you are proposing before someone asks.
02“Which societies have actually done this?”Ask any vendor for a reference committee you can call — and what went wrong on their install.Fuller answer
Ask for named sites and offer to call them. Any vendor unwilling to give you a reference committee to speak to is telling you something. Ask specifically what went wrong during their installation — every project has something, and a vendor who claims otherwise is not being straight with you.
03“The electrician quoted a quarter of this.”For a handful of bays with spare capacity they may be right. Put both quotes side by side and name what the cheaper one leaves out.Fuller answer
They probably did, and for a handful of bays with spare capacity they may be right. The difference is a system that shares the supply, a bill per bay, and someone accountable in two years. Put both quotes side by side and be explicit about what the cheaper one does not include, rather than defending the expensive one.
04“What if the company shuts down?”Ask about open protocols and who holds the commissioning documents — and get the handover into the contract.Fuller answer
A fair question about any young supplier, and it deserves a real answer rather than reassurance. Ask what happens to the hardware, whether the charge points speak an open protocol, who holds the commissioning documents, and whether there is a written handover arrangement. Get the answer in the contract, not the meeting.
05“Can we not just wait?”You can — but residents charge from common sockets meanwhile, and that risk sits with the committee.Fuller answer
You can, and if nobody owns an EV that is reasonable. What waiting does not do is stay still: residents charge from common sockets in the meantime, which is the specific risk the committee carries. The cheapest moment to lay a backbone is before the basement has been opened once already.
06“How much will the society earn from this?”Less than you were told. Present it as risk and amenity, not income.Fuller answer
Less than you may have been told. At a realistic present-day EV count the association's share of what residents pay is a modest monthly sum — real, but nowhere near enough to carry a capital vote on its own. Present this as a risk and amenity decision, not an income one, and ask any vendor promising society revenue to show you their arithmetic. A treasurer who has already done it is much harder to ambush.
Show the draft resolutionSlide seven. Adapt to your society's bye-laws; not legal drafting.
“RESOLVED THAT the Association be and is hereby authorised to install a centralised electric vehicle charging system that shares the building's sanctioned load, serving the common parking areas, comprising an initial ______ four-wheeler and ______ two-wheeler charge points on a backbone sized for ______ bays; that the capital expenditure of ₹______ be met from ______; that residents using the system be billed per unit consumed at a rate not exceeding any ceiling prescribed by law at the time; and that the Managing Committee be authorised to execute the necessary agreements and to apply to the licensee for any additional sanctioned load required.”
Your society's bye-laws govern what a resolution must contain and what majority it needs — check both before circulating.
Take the deck into the room
The blanks on slides three and seven are measured, not modelled. A free survey fills them — you keep the numbers whether or not you appoint us.